European chip designer and maker STMicroelectronics NV has said that China's Konka Group Co. Ltd. has agreed to mass produce LCD integrated digital televisions (iDTVs) based on ST's DTV100 design.

Konka (Beijing, China) is expected to go into mass production in October in time for the winter holiday season, ST (Geneva, Switzerland) said.

The DTV100 design of television is built around ST's STD2000 high-definition integrated decoder and video processor, which supports "all worldwide standards" ST claimed. The DTV100 design includes software development and customization tools that have enabled Konka to develop its own version of the design.

Konka televisions based on DTV100 are expected to be suitable for the Asian market the America ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) market. The DTV100 platform can be configured for all worldwide TV standards.

The STD2000 single-chip high-definition processor is manufactured in a 90-nm CMOS process. It can decode and display both analog and digital broadcasts, eliminating adjacent-channel noise and multi-path interference, and can decode two simultaneous standard-definition (SD) signals as well as performing high-definition decompression, video processing and display for flat-panel televisions.

Under FCC requirements, all televisions sold in the United States after March 2007 must have built-in digital tuners. The DTV100 reference design and its development support enable manufacturers to produce compliant products with the minimum of design effort.

The DTV1000 supports all matrix displays LCD and plasma up to 1080 lines progressively scanned. The platform also supports the CableCARD interface for U.S. OpenCable specifications and interfaces to meet European terrestrial DVB specifications.

Source:佚名